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24-415: Rainforest Foundation may refer to: Rainforest Foundation Fund , the U.S. parent organization of: Rainforest Foundation Norway Rainforest Foundation UK Rainforest Foundation US See also [ edit ] The Rainforest Fund Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

48-720: A line of demarcation in Beirut , Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. It separated the mainly Muslim factions in West Beirut from the predominantly Christian East Beirut controlled by the Lebanese Front. South and East Asia [ edit ] The McMahon Line is a line dividing China and India, drawn on a map attached to the Simla Convention , a treaty negotiated between

72-992: A national "park". Moreover, the Fund's initial project supported demarcation of the Mengkragnoti Area, which is right next to/contiguous with the Xingu Park, and did not demarcate the park itself. Demarcation line Geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:   "Demarcation line"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( January 2008 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) A political demarcation line

96-495: A part-time financial director/treasurer (Li Lu). The chairperson serves as a volunteer, and handles all project screening, interim assessments and post-project evaluations. Final decisions on projects and fund disbursement are made by the Rainforest Foundation Fund board. Rather than administrating large projects itself, the Fund believes that the primary beneficiaries, the indigenous peoples, should also be

120-815: A possible armistice line between Poland to the west and the Soviet republics to the east during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–21. The modern Poland–Belarus and Poland–Ukraine borders mostly follow the Curzon line. The Foch Line was a temporary demarcation line between Poland and Lithuania proposed by the Entente in the aftermath of World War I . The demarcation line in France in Vichy France imposed by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1942, with

144-418: A project's total budget, leaving its grantee responsible for finding the remaining 20%, to avoid over-dependency on just one funding source. The fund grants money on a three-year basis, but will extend funding up to five years in certain circumstances. Grant-recipient's projects are evaluated annually. The Rainforest Foundation Fund works with an extremely small staff, with only a chairperson (Franca Sciuto) and

168-496: A secure, healthy and ecologically sound environment." The Fund believes that environmental degradation necessarily violates human rights to life, health and culture. The international community widely accepts that indigenous peoples are holders of a specific set of rights and are also the victims of historically unique forms of discrimination, and it enshrined this idea in the United Nations Declaration on

192-557: Is a geopolitical border , often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire . Africa [ edit ] Moroccan Wall , delimiting the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara from the Sahrawi-controlled part Americas [ edit ] During European imperialism overseas, the lines of amity were drawn to differentiate Europe from the rest of the world. The Line of Demarcation

216-587: Is a disputed maritime demarcation line in the Yellow Sea between North Korea and South Korea . The Line of Actual Control established by India and the People's Republic of China between Aksai Chin and Ladakh after the Sino-Indian War of 1962. The Line of Control established by India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir . The nine-dash line appears on maps used by

240-788: The Belo Monte Dam in Brazil: "While at the United Nations discussions are underway on the crucial issue of climate change, and governments are finally realizing that they have to change their pattern of development, in the Brazilian Amazon plans are well advanced to build environmentally destructive mega-dams along the Xingu River, the last of the great Amazon rivers in a good state of conservation." . The Rainforest Foundation Fund usually covers only about 80% of

264-605: The British Empire , China , and Tibet in 1914. The Military Demarcation Line , sometimes referred to as the Armistice Line , is the border between North Korea and South Korea . The Military Demarcation Line was established by the Korean Armistice Agreement as the line between the two Koreas at the end of Korean War in 1953. The Northern Limit Line or North Limit Line (NLL)

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288-605: The German-occupied zone in the north and a free zone in the south. The Line of Contact was a demarcation line between Soviet-aligned forces and forces aligned with the Western allies, marking where Soviet-aligned forces and Western-aligned forces met as they advanced into Germany and Austria at the end of World War II in Europe. The Bosnian Inter-Entity Boundary Line is an ethno-administrative border established by

312-548: The Kayapo people of Brazil made a personal request to them to help his community protect their lands and culture. Since then, the Rainforest Foundation Fund has funded projects that have protected a total of 28 million acres of forest in 20 different rainforest countries around the globe. The mission of the Rainforest Foundation Fund is: "to protect and support indigenous people and traditional forest populations in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfill their right to

336-626: The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) accompanying their South China Sea claims, which are challenged by Malaysia , the Philippines , and Vietnam . Europe [ edit ] [REDACTED] The Line of Contact , final positions of the armies of the Western Allies and Soviets, May 8, 1945. The Curzon Line was a demarcation line proposed in 1920 by British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon as

360-519: The United Nations on 7 June 2001 for the purposes of determining whether Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon. The term Green Line is used to refer to the 1949 Armistice lines established between Israel and its neighbours ( Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria ) after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . The Purple Line was the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria after the 1967 Six-Day War . The Green Line (Lebanon) refers

384-530: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples , adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2007. The Rainforest Fund claims that its work is motivated by its recognition of a substantial disconnect between such declarations made by the governments of the world in an international forum, and the actions that those governments undertake in their own countries. They mention as an illustration the controversy surrounding

408-493: The activities and practices of governments or other entities which damage their environment and lands. The programs and projects are developed in partnership with local communities and representative indigenous NGOs. The Rainforest Foundation Fund was first founded in 1989 as the Rainforest Foundation International, by Sting and his wife Trudie Styler after an indigenous leader, Raoni , of

432-482: The borders of Pennsylvania , Maryland , Delaware , and West Virginia (then part of Virginia ). It was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America . Asia [ edit ] Middle East [ edit ] The Blue Line is a border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel published by

456-566: The fund's first campaign came under fire by the French edition of 'Rolling Stone' magazine in an article that mentioned the failings of previous work in the rainforest and criticized the organization for holding lavish fundraising banquets. The 'Rolling Stone' article was used as the basis for a documentary by Granada Television's 'World in Action' program. The show, called 'Sting and the Indians',

480-767: The primary administrators of the projects and they work through intermediary organizations to ensure they are equipped with the administrative structures, technology and trained leadership needed to carry out their projects. The Rainforest Fund supports projects that defend indigenous people's rights to their lands and to live in a healthy environment. The Fund assists rainforest indigenous communities by providing funding to help them achieve official demarcation of their territories and then ensure they are able to effectively defend their communities from violations of their rights including illegal logging , mining , other land invasions, and social disenfranchisement /denial of their rights as citizens. Many of their projects work to uphold

504-765: The right of indigenous peoples to grant or to withhold. Then their free, prior and informed consent to projects that will affect their land, resources and livelihoods, and to ensure that indigenous communities are given full information and have a voice in project negotiations and the policy design process. It also makes grants to programs that assist communities in designing sustainable development strategies, and in strengthening their representative organizations. Their grants support public awareness programs, technological training, community development, organizational capacity building , sustainable resource management, legal defense, and local, national, and international policy and advocacy. 2011 Supported Projects: In January 1990

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528-665: The title Rainforest Foundation . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rainforest_Foundation&oldid=887283641 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rainforest Foundation Fund The fund provides support to indigenous rainforest peoples to assert and defend their rights, to define and promote sustainable development in their communities, and to challenge

552-582: Was one specific line drawn along a meridian in the Atlantic Ocean as part of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 to divide new lands claimed by Portugal from those of Spain . This line was drawn in 1493 after Christopher Columbus returned from his maiden voyage to the Americas . The Mason–Dixon line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") is a demarcation line between four U.S. states , forming part of

576-770: Was re-broadcast in the United States on the A&;E cable network hosted by Bill Kurtis. The primary claim of both was that the project in Brazil was misrepresenting the facts to donors, as some of the Kayapo's traditional land was already "protected" within the Xingu National Park. In fact, the Xingu Park is actually a large indigenous-controlled area, the first in Brazil, so it is an indigenous territory, not

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